D&R Headline News (June 2008)

Headlines for Monday Jun. 30, 2008

Virage Logic has acquired Impinj's leading solutions for logic NVM IP and added more than 50 Impinj patents to its already robust IP portfolio. In addition to the acquisition of assets, Virage Logic has hired approximately 30 former Impinj employees who were responsible for the company's logic NVM IP business.

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 25, 2008

The platform consists of the Veloce® family of hardware-assisted verification products and the iSolveTM PCI Express product, which provides a cost-effective and efficient solution, delivering a dynamic and accurate PCI Express verification environment.

Headlines for Tuesday Jun. 24, 2008

The MoSys 1T-SRAM Dual-Port Display macro is used as the display buffer memory mounted on the display (chip-on-glass) or on the connecting cable (chip-on-film or tape carrier package). By keeping the display buffer memory on the display itself, LG Electronics should reduce the challenges inherent in electromagnetic interference (EMI), while cutting overall display power consumption.

Headlines for Monday Jun. 23, 2008

The growth of the worldwide market for semiconductor intellectual property slipped back to a single-digit percentage in 2007, reflecting signs of maturity, less organic growth and more growth by acquisition, according to market research company Gartner.

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 18, 2008

The DesignWare Verification IP supports all major simulators and verification languages including Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL and Vera, allowing designers to quickly and efficiently create a comprehensive SATA- based environment. In addition, the Verification IP for SATA delivers up to 5X performance improvement when used with Synopsys' VCS® simulation tool

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 11, 2008

The PCI-SIG I/O Virtualization (IOV) technology, which builds on the PCI Express (PCIe) protocol stack, reduces the system hardware requirements by enabling the simultaneous sharing of peripherals across multiple CPUs or operating systems.

Headlines for Wednesday Jun. 04, 2008

CAST and SoC Solutions recently proved the effectiveness of a new FPGA design capability from Synopsys’ Synplicity Business Group by developing a complete 32-bit processor-based system in just three and a half days.

Headlines for Monday Jun. 02, 2008

ARM today announced the ARM® Mali™-400 MP scalable multiprocessor graphics solution, capable of delivering performance of up to 1G pixels per second and enabling licensees to serve multiple product markets with the same architecture, whilst retaining the flexibility to choose the optimum power, performance and area configuration for their application.